Category: Papa Legba (Elegua Eshu Eshu or Exu)

From the evening of the 27th of June until the evening of July 4th 2011, we have special package deals for the Summer Festival of Eshu. These deals will not be available again until the week of September 29th, 2011. The Basic Package includes: a full service bone and/or card reading food…

As I have mentioned in earlier articles, there are many streams of Vodun, Orisha, honored Ancestor worship, and Nature worship in Africa and the diaspora. In Africa, because they all have a very long history, they have all gained legitimacy over time and through effective practice and aiding in the success of their people. Every […]

Initiation is very important in most African traditional religions. You may worship whichever deities you like, so long as you do so respectfully, but it is important to understand that Vodun and other African and diaspora belief systems are alive and have actual communities practicing in unbroken lines for over 10,000 years. They have actual […]

An ebbo is basically an offering to the Orishas. There are many kinds of ebbo that practitioners of Vodun and west African diaspora practitioners do. In some groups in the diaspora, some make a distinction between adimmu and ebbo, and base this on the outcome of divination. Others say that adimmu is specifically a food […]

No. Just no. Nobody can sell you a spirit. On the “food chain” of beings, humans are granted certain abilities by Nature, but the ability to buy or sell an alterdimensional being is not one of them. Some conjurers may use the term “selling” as a sort of a short-hand for “smoothing the way for […]

Orisha Oko is in charge of agriculture, and owns all cultivated land. He is also a judge in many matters, including but not limited to witchcraft and the benevolence or malevolence thereof. In the diaspora, where most of our practice has been labelled malevolent “witchcraft” by the misinformed, we depend on him to learn to […]